Question: If birds are used to eating from a bird feeder, and you put a fake bird in their favorite spot, will they do something about it?
Hypothesis: I think that they will keep eating from the feeder, just in a different spot.
Introduction: I got part of my idea when Tommy was talking about the Godzilla stuffed animal. I just thought that seeing if the birds would react differently if their feeder was already being used would be interesting.
Materials: A bird feeder, some bird seed, and a fake bird. I will also need something to attach the fake bird to the feeder.
Methods: Fill a bird feeder with bird seed. Let birds eat it. Then after half a week I'm gonna put a fake bird on the bird feeder and see if it changes anything. I filled my bird feeder to the top, with one bag of bird feed, and marked where it stopped. After a week I'm gonna measure how much bird seed it takes to fill it back up to the mark, and that's how I know how much seed the birds ate.
Variables: My independent variable is the fake bird on the bird feeder. My dependent variable is how much seed is eaten.
I filled my feeder, and set it up for the birds to start coming to it, and get used to it. After about a week of them getting used to it, I filled my feeder again. On 10-12-15, I filled it up again, but measure how much it took to fill. That was how much the birds ate. Then I put a fake bird that I got on the feeder, and leave it for about a week. I tried to get a fake bird that was a species that we saw at the feeder the most often, so I got a Chickadee. After a week I filled the feeder again, and measure how much it took to fill it. That will also be the amount of food they ate. I then compared how much food they ate before I put the fake bird out, and after I put the fake bird out. I've noticed that a lot of the birds ate from one side of the feeder, so I put the fake bird there.
Conclusion: For the first part of my experiment where there was no fake bird o the bird feeder, the birds ate 42 ounces of bird seed in one week. For the second part of my experiment, where there was a fake bird on the feeder, the birds ate about 5 ounces of bird seed. From what I saw when the birds did eat bird seed, it was very quick, and they didn't get much seed. They also came to the feeder on the opposite side of where the fake bird was.
My research was kind of supported. It supports my hypothesis, because the birds were still eating at the feeder, but it also doesn't support my hypothesis, because I thought they would keep eating like normal, just in a different spot, but the birds were coming in short little periods of time with the fake bird, and not how I thought they would eat.
Measured in ounces
I tried to put the bird on the feeder with tape, but it fell off over night, so I attached it with rubber bands in the morning
Question: If birds are used to eating from a bird feeder, and you put a fake bird in their favorite spot, will they do something about it?
Hypothesis: I think that they will keep eating from the feeder, just in a different spot.
Introduction: I got part of my idea when Tommy was talking about the Godzilla stuffed animal. I just thought that seeing if the birds would react differently if their feeder was already being used would be interesting.
Materials: A bird feeder, some bird seed, and a fake bird. I will also need something to attach the fake bird to the feeder.
Methods: Fill a bird feeder with bird seed. Let birds eat it. Then after half a week I'm gonna put a fake bird on the bird feeder and see if it changes anything. I filled my bird feeder to the top, with one bag of bird feed, and marked where it stopped. After a week I'm gonna measure how much bird seed it takes to fill it back up to the mark, and that's how I know how much seed the birds ate.
Variables: My independent variable is the fake bird on the bird feeder. My dependent variable is how much seed is eaten.
I filled my feeder, and set it up for the birds to start coming to it, and get used to it. After about a week of them getting used to it, I filled my feeder again. On 10-12-15, I filled it up again, but measure how much it took to fill. That was how much the birds ate. Then I put a fake bird that I got on the feeder, and leave it for about a week. I tried to get a fake bird that was a species that we saw at the feeder the most often, so I got a Chickadee. After a week I filled the feeder again, and measure how much it took to fill it. That will also be the amount of food they ate. I then compared how much food they ate before I put the fake bird out, and after I put the fake bird out. I've noticed that a lot of the birds ate from one side of the feeder, so I put the fake bird there.
Conclusion: For the first part of my experiment where there was no fake bird o the bird feeder, the birds ate 42 ounces of bird seed in one week. For the second part of my experiment, where there was a fake bird on the feeder, the birds ate about 5 ounces of bird seed. From what I saw when the birds did eat bird seed, it was very quick, and they didn't get much seed. They also came to the feeder on the opposite side of where the fake bird was.
My research was kind of supported. It supports my hypothesis, because the birds were still eating at the feeder, but it also doesn't support my hypothesis, because I thought they would keep eating like normal, just in a different spot, but the birds were coming in short little periods of time with the fake bird, and not how I thought they would eat.